Projects (25)

AFFIRM - Planning for the Unplanned Jun 1, 2024 - Jun 1, 2027
The project will improve understanding, evaluate intervention, enhance partnership working, promote training about the Covenant and the support and care available to veterans to Acute Public Sector Services across Scotland. AFFIRM will ensure that k... Read More about AFFIRM - Planning for the Unplanned.

Mental health and substance use care pathways and outcomes for people released from prison Jun 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Lay summary: It is important that people released from prison get help for mental health and substance use. This will protect their health and help them live life away from crime. People released from prison in Scotland are more likely to die from su... Read More about Mental health and substance use care pathways and outcomes for people released from prison.

The RECO study: Realist Evaluation of service models and systems for CO- existing serious mental health and substance use conditions. Jan 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2022
The impact of serious mental health difficulties can be severe, long-lasting, and can seriously affect peoples' lives over a long period of time. It is common for people who experience serious mental health difficulties to have problems with drinking... Read More about The RECO study: Realist Evaluation of service models and systems for CO- existing serious mental health and substance use conditions..

Co-creating the future: the use of multifunctional robots in occupational therapy and dementia. Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2026
Dementia is a complex condition which can cause a diverse range of symptoms that impact everyday life for the person living with dementia, including their families' caregivers and supporters. Evidence indicates that access to rehabilitation offered... Read More about Co-creating the future: the use of multifunctional robots in occupational therapy and dementia..

Evaluation of the impact of BRAVEHOUND on Veteran Mental Health Oct 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025
The grant will be used to fund an evaluation, led by Napier University (Centre for Military Research) which will provide an evidence base report for Bravehound.

Modular Therapy (MT) vs. Treatment as Usual (TAU) for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in Military Personnel: A Pilot Study Jan 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2026
ICD-11 Complex PTSD is a new condition and there are currently no identified effective treatments. We have recently proposed in the literature a new innovative person centred intervention for CPTSD, which involves targeting the symptoms of CPTSD clus... Read More about Modular Therapy (MT) vs. Treatment as Usual (TAU) for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in Military Personnel: A Pilot Study.

Free Labour and Precarity in mental health provision: trainee counsellors experiences across the UK Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2026
This collaborative project critically examines the rise in service models and specifically mental health provision based on the free, gendered, precarious labour of trainee counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK, who are both givers and receivers... Read More about Free Labour and Precarity in mental health provision: trainee counsellors experiences across the UK.

South Node Lead, Mental Health National Research Scotland Network Dec 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
I have been appointed to NRS as the south node lead for mental health research network. This is a CSO infrastructure to support recruitment to mental health research in the NHS. I sit on the national managment committee and they pay a small honorariu... Read More about South Node Lead, Mental Health National Research Scotland Network.

The Future of Mental Health Law: a comparative analysis of law reform debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England and Wales Aug 31, 2023 - Dec 4, 2023
Mental Health Law and its relationship to human rights has become increasingly contested following the
adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Human rights arguments
coupled with rising rates of compulsory ment... Read More about The Future of Mental Health Law: a comparative analysis of law reform debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England and Wales.

Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2027
The police have always dealt with vulnerable people but over the past decade, the nature and extent of this involvement has changed dramatically. Increasingly, the police have been drawn into policing modern slavery, County Lines drug networks, menta... Read More about Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre.

Increasing Physical Activity in a Medium Secure Service: The Development and Feasibility of a Physical ACTivity Intervention Jun 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2023
Many people become overweight due to the effects of poor diet, and less active lifestyles. Being obese can affect people s heath and lead to type 2 diabetes and heart problems, People with severe mental health problems find it more difficult to live... Read More about Increasing Physical Activity in a Medium Secure Service: The Development and Feasibility of a Physical ACTivity Intervention.

iMAgery focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): A feasibility randomised controlled trial Jan 6, 2022 - Dec 31, 2023
Our research aims to improve the current treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia. Our main aim is to assess
whether it is feasible to conduct a randomised trial to examine the (clinical and cost) effectiveness of an imagery focused
p... Read More about iMAgery focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): A feasibility randomised controlled trial.

A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland. Oct 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2025
A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland.
NHS Boards in Scotland are implementing new observation policies in line with the Healthcare Improvement Scotland guidanc... Read More about A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland..

Evaluation of Glasgow's Improving Cancer Journeys programme Jun 2, 2015 - Dec 31, 2024
The evaluation proposed here is necessarily flexible to support the programme’s evolution. The overall aim is to provide the programme with the most valid and robust practical evidence in a timely and systematic manner. It will focus on specific proc... Read More about Evaluation of Glasgow's Improving Cancer Journeys programme.

Co-produced career guidance intervention for people living with dementia Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2023
Project, led by Dr Louise Ritchie of the University of the West of Scotland and Co-investigators (Prof Debbie Tolson and Emma Bolger of University of the Westof Scotland, Dr Valerie Egdell and Katie Brittain of Northumbria University and myself) to c... Read More about Co-produced career guidance intervention for people living with dementia.

How cross-service collaboration can improve community safety and wellbeing Jan 1, 2022 - Nov 30, 2022
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) in partnership with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service is providing funding to support a Rapid Research Project which will explore collaboration between Fire, Am... Read More about How cross-service collaboration can improve community safety and wellbeing.

Queer Futures 2 Jan 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2022
Queer Futures 2 is a large national UK study to identify and evaluate early intervention mental health support and services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+ (LGBTQ+) young people. Funded by the National Institute for Health... Read More about Queer Futures 2.

The impact of COVID-19 on the justice voluntary sector Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2022
The aim of the project is to explore the experiences of third sector criminal justice organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic. We want to understand how organisations and the sector as a whole have been impacted, and how they have adapted in these... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on the justice voluntary sector.

MORE RESPECT: A Randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with severe mental illness delivered in community mental health settin Sep 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2026
This study focuses on people with severe mental illness (SMI) which includes problems like bipolar affective disorder, psychosis and other long-term problems that severely impact on daily activities. It is recognised that people... Read More about MORE RESPECT: A Randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with severe mental illness delivered in community mental health settin.

CPTSD and Psychosis: Psychological Interventions for Complex PTSD And Schizophrenia-Spectrum disOrder (PICASSO) Jan 1, 2022 - Nov 30, 2023
Psychosis is a highly distressing mental health condition, affecting up to 3% of the population. Conceptually, it has much in common with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). Both involve negative self-esteem, impaired emotion regulation a... Read More about CPTSD and Psychosis: Psychological Interventions for Complex PTSD And Schizophrenia-Spectrum disOrder (PICASSO).